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Table of Content

What to expect?
- Some TLDR about the idea behind
Prerequisites
- Hardware
- System & Software
Update: Attention for MUXless laptop

Latency numbers every programmer should know

L1 cache reference ......................... 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict ............................ 5 ns
L2 cache reference ........................... 7 ns
Mutex lock/unlock ........................... 25 ns
Main memory reference ...................... 100 ns             
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy ............. 3,000 ns  =   3 µs
Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network ....... 20,000 ns  =  20 µs
SSD random read ........................ 150,000 ns  = 150 µs

Read 1 MB sequentially from memory ..... 250,000 ns = 250 µs

	# This gist is transcribed from a talk by Sean Zicari
	# Talk: Use Curses, don't swear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN1eZtjLEnU
	#
	# I haven't written the function which he used to fetch quotes from the web
	# This only presents the barebones structure of his application
	#
	# If debugging a curses application messes up your terminal, type `tset` to reset terminal

	import curses

	#!/bin/bash
	# latest-firefox Version 1.3.9

	# This script will find the latest Firefox binary package, download it
	# and repackage it into Slackware format.

	# I don't use Firefox for regular browsing but it is handy for
	# comparative tests against Vivaldi. :P

	# Copyright 2016 Ruari Oedegaard, Oslo, Norway